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Brocade VA-40FC Hardware Reference Manual 1
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Chapter
1
Brocade VA-40FC Introduction
In this chapter
•Brocade VA-40FC overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
•Port side of the Brocade VA-40FC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
•Non-port side of the Brocade VA-40FC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
•Field replaceable units (FRUs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
•Ports on Demand license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
•ISL trunking groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
•Fabric OS Native and Access Gateway modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Brocade VA-40FC overview
The Brocade VA-40FC is an Enterprise class 1U, 40-port Fibre Channel 1, 2, 4 or 8 Gbps Fibre
Channel switch that offers the next generation Brocade, single-chip architecture for Storage Area
Networks (SANs). The Brocade VA-40FC is designed to function in large-scale enterprise SANs and
can also fit the requirements of small to medium-sized work groups.
Because the Brocade VA-40FC has a slim 1U height and a high port count, you can use the Brocade
VA-40FC to create very dense fabrics in a relatively small space. With its flexible Ports On Demand
(POD) capability, the Brocade VA-40FC provides excellent overall value as the foundation of a SAN
with the ability to grow with an organization’s SAN needs.
The Brocade VA-40FC is the latest mid-range offer from the Brocade family of entry-to-enterprise
products. It supports the following features:
• Up to 40 ports of high-performance 8 Gbps technology and POD scaling from 24 to 32 or 40
ports.
• Support for 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch and router ports.
• FICON
®
, FICON Cascading and FICON Control Unit Port ready.
• Two hot-swappable, redundant integrated power supply and fan FRUs.
• Universal ports that self-configure as E, F, M, or FL ports. Ex_Ports are activated on a per port
basis with the optional Integrated Routing license.
• Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) service that provides improved scalability and fault isolation
(through the optional Integrated Routing license).
• An RJ45 Ethernet management port, that in conjunction with EZSwitchSetup, supports switch
IP address discovery and configuration, eliminating the need to attach a serial cable to
configure the switch IP address and greatly increasing the ease of use.
• USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave command and
storage for configuration uploads and downloads